Rabbi Marsha Jane does another wedding, baby naming, and celebration of life
Rabbi Marsha Jane married a lovely interfaith couple last weekend in a beautiful ceremony. The bride is Jewish and the groom is Irish Catholic. The groom’s aunt came up to read 1 Corinthians and another aunt read the Irish blessing. Always special to do an interfaith wedding and put traditions from the non Jewish couple into the ceremony.
This couple was referred to Rabbi Marsha Jane only a few days before their ceremony when their prior officiant had a family emergency. The bride texted with the prior officiant and said:
The wedding was fantastic!!!!! Rabbi Marsha was wonderful!!!!
Rabbi Marsha Jane loves creating meaningful and personalized ceremonies for couples.
Rabbi Marsha officiated for another interfaith couple a week before. Rabbi Marsha Jane received a personal note from the bride that read:
Dear Rabbi Marsha:
Thank you so much for everything. Your guidance and support throughout
the whole process was greatly appreciated. We are sure we were not maybe
your most conventional or traditional couple, but we are so grateful of how
you met us and created the perfect ceremony that felt meaningful to us. We
can’t thank you enough and hope to not be strangers!
Responses like these are so wonderful to receive since all Rabbi Marsha Jane wants to do is to give people a ceremony that they can experience in real time as special and to which they can look back on as a spectacular day in their lives. A wedding ceremony is only one half hour long and it is important to remember that you get one of those in a lifetime.
Rabbi Marsha Jane looks forward to do a baby naming this weekend at the home of the new parents. Rabbi Marsha Jane put together a ceremony booklet which has places for parents and grandparents to participate. This little girl will get the Hebrew name of your grandfather of blessed memory. This is what Jewish families do – name a child after someone deceased in the hope that the soul of the deceased lives in the soul of the newborn imbuing the new child with characteristics of the deceased.
Rabbi Marsha Jane loves creating weddings, baby namings, and even funerals and interfaith celebrations of life for Jewish and interfaith couples.
Rabbi Marsha will give the parents of this beautiful little girl, a naming certificate which she will have as proof that she was given a Hebrew name by a Rabbi. The family is using the kiddish cup that was her father’s of blessed memory; and the kiddish cup is one that the mom received at her bat mitzvah.
Rabbi Marsha Jane believes that we have a large tent and there are all kinds of different Jewish people in there: some are more observant than others. Some don’t practice at all and yet Rabbi Marsha Jane said there are no “bad Jews”; bad people maybe but not a bad Jew. A Jew is a Jew.
And it is awesome for Rabbi Marsha Jane to watch interfaith families come together with the support of each side of the family to create a united and integrated family.
Rabbi Marsha Jane loves to spend time with her couples getting to know them well before she stands before them and “marries” them. She also loves to get to know the families of the children she gets to welcome into the Jewish community. One of the honors of being a Rabbi, is talking to the family of those who have lost a loved one and getting to know them and to understand the person they lost. Rabbi MArsha Jane prepares a service and writes a eulogy after getting to “know” the deceased and their loved ones. In a few weeks Rabbi Marsha Jane will be conducting a celebration of life service for a beloved brother and father. More to come.